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Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J - STAT
WEBFeb 2, 2021 · The interval between Moderna doses is 28 days; for the Pfizer vaccine, it’s 21 days. Each dose of Pfizer’s contains 30 micrograms of vaccine. Moderna went with a much larger dose of vaccine ...
Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years - STAT
WEBNov 13, 2023 · The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1.This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996. “Across ...
Experts: Trump speech patterns hint of potential cognitive decline
WEBAug 7, 2024 · advertisement. This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections — a pattern of speech called tangentiality — is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that ...
Why liver experts renamed NASH to MASH, and NAFLD to MASLD …
WEBDec 28, 2023 · A group of over 200 physicians, public health experts, industry representatives, regulatory officials, and patient advocates made the call in a supermajority vote: Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
STAT Biotech: Market-moving coverage of new drug development
WEBBiotech news roundup: Inside the discoveries, personalities, and deals driving drug development in general and biomedical engineering in particular. You’ll find coverage of biotech companies ...
The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading …
WEBNov 10, 2020 · Pfizer, a 171-year-old Fortune 500 powerhouse, has made a billion-dollar bet on that dream. So has a brash, young rival just 23 miles away in Cambridge, Mass. Moderna, a 10-year-old biotech ...
Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their
WEBJul 26, 2019 · Of all the sites with red ratings, 37% publish false or unfounded health claims. These sites accounted for more than 49 million engagements (shares, likes, comments, etc.) on social media in the ...
There's no autism epidemic. It's an autism diagnosis epidemic - STAT
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · No. The increase in the autism rate recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention represent an autism diagnosis epidemic. Writing in the weekly journal MMWR, CDC researchers ...
Woodcock on FDA’s accelerated approval and her next chapter
WEBJan 30, 2024 · W ASHINGTON — It’s the end of an era for the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime drug chief, but she’s drawn the battle plans for the agency’s next chapter. Janet Woodcock joined the ...